Old Warson Country Club

Old Warson Country Club is a country club located in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1953,^[3] it hosted the 1971 Ryder Cup and the 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur. The golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones.^[4]

Old Warson Country Club

Club information
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Coordinates	38.617°N 90.383°W / 38.617; -90.383
Location	Ladue, Missouri
Established	April 15, 1954
Type	Private
Total holes	18
Events hosted	1971 Ryder Cup, 1957 Western Amateur, 1962 Trans-Mississippi Amateur, 1999 U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf, 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur Golf, 2016 U.S. Senior Men's Amateur Golf
Website	oldwarson.com
Designed by	Robert Trent Jones
Par	71[1]
Length	6,946 yards (6,351 m)[1]
Course rating	74.6[2]
Slope rating	135[2]

Hale Irwin, the winner of three U.S. Opens, joined the club in 1974 as a junior member; since 1977 he has been an active member.^[3][5]

Until 1991, Old Warson Country Club banned Black and Jewish people from joining.^[6] That year, it cancelled plans to host a PGA Senior Tour event rather than change its discriminatory rules.^[7][8] Several months later, the club admitted its first Black member: Frederick S. Wood, a retired executive vice president at General Dynamics.^[6][9]

The initiation fee was $45,000 ($87,422 today^[10]) in 1996 and $80,000 ($120,911 today^[10]) in 2006.^[6]

Major tournaments

Year	Tournament	Winner
1957	Western Amateur	Joe Campbell
1962	Trans-Mississippi Amateur	Bob Ryan
1971	Ryder Cup	Team USA
1999	U.S. Mid-Amateur	Danny Green
2009	U.S. Women's Amateur	Jennifer Song
2016	U.S. Senior Amateur	Dave Ryan

Notes

1. "Old Warson Country Club". Amateurgolf.com. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
2. "Course Rating and Slope Database: Old Warson Country Club". United States Golf Association. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
3. "History of Old Warson Country Club". Old Warson Country Club. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
4. "Course List". Robert Trent Jones Society. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
5. "All-Time St. Louis Championships". James F. Healey. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
6. Cooperman, Jeannette (July 31, 2006). "Dinner at the Club, Darling?". www.stlmag.com. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
7. Diaz, Jaime (September 11, 1990). "Augusta National Admits First Black Member". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
8. Staff, George White of The Sentinel. "Clubs Changing in the Aftermath of Shoal Creek". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
9. Demas, Lane (August 9, 2017). Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf. UNC Press Books. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4696-3423-4.
10. 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.

External links

• Official website